How Does W. Jacobs Create Suspense In The Monkey's Paw

Authors can choose who can die and live in a story. In the story “The Monkey’s Paw” W.W. Jacobs uses the craft element setting, images, and repetition an effective story. The Magic paw changes a family’s life in a way they did not expect.

W.W. Jacobs uses setting to create an eerie story in “The Monkeys Paw.” For example, Jacobs opens his story describing how bad the weather conditions are outside before Sgt. Major arrives. “The night was cold and heat wet” (p19). This makes the story eerie and creates suspense. Secondly, W.W. Jacobs describing the how good it sounds in inside and how warm it is. “In the small parlor… the fire burned brightly” (p19). This shows a contrast of the setting in the story. The upcoming quote can make a part of the story eerie. “The candle-end, which had burned below the rim of the China candle stick was, throwing pulsating shadows on the ceiling and walls, until, with a flicker larger, than the rest, it expired.” This is showing how a quote can make an eerie and scary in the story. This evidence concludes that W.W. Jacobs does a good job at creating a suspenseful and eerie story in “The Monkeys Paw.”
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When Mr. White wishes for 200 pounds to pay off the house. “I wished; it twisted in my hand like a snake” (p17). When the reader reads this line images pop up in the reader head. Then when Mrs. White makes Mr. White wishes for her son back her son is outside knocking on the front door. After that Mr. White wishes for her son to go away. “But her husband was on his hands and knee groping wildly on the floor in search of the paw” (24). This image pops up when the reader read her husband was the floor search for the paw. Another reason why imagery is uses in author craft. “She was watching the mysterious movements of a man outside” (19). This shows how imagery is one of author crafts. This is evidence proves how imagery is a part of author crafts and creates an effective